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The Interim Executive Director of Project, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Cairo Ojougboh, has indicted unnamed serving senator involved in the screening of the NDDC board.
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According to him, the senator was behind 300 contract jobs with the commission, with 120 out of the 300 are fully paid for by the commission without the senator mobilising workforce to sites.
He also alleged that the Commission owe ghost contractors N3trn.
Addressing Newsmen in Abuja, the former member of the House of Representatives said 10 audit firms had been engaged to audit the financial records of the NDDC.
Ojougboh said, “The NDDC is owing over N3tn to phantom contractors. It is these contractors that are making this noise because they know the interim management will not compromise.
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“The genuine contractors have not been paid while phantom contractors have been paid. Some of the contracts have been terminated but the contractors failed to return money.”
